THE WHEEL OF TIME – Season 1 – Episodes 1 through 3 – SPOILERS More ‘Sword and Science‘ than ‘Sword and Sorcery‘; THE WHEEL OF TIME is an engaging, complex, and coherent fantasy world. Fans of the books seem generally …
THE WHEEL OF TIME – Season 1 Episode 4 – SPOILERS “The Wheel doesn’t want anything. It can’t. Any more than a river or the rain can want something.” Moiraine (Rosamund Pike) and Lan Mandragoran (Daniel Henney) have been joined …
THE WHEEL OF TIME – Season 1 Episode 5 – SPOILERS Egwene (Madeleine Madden) and Perrin (Marcus Rutherford) are still traveling with Ila (Maria Doyle Kennedy) and her band of nomads. Just as they get within sight of the White …
THE WHEEL OF TIME – Season 1 Episode 6 – SPOILERS Moiraine (Rosamund Pike) has been on a secret mission for the Amyrlin Seat (Siuan Sanche, played by Sophie Okonedo) to locate the Dragon Reborn. (Siuan and Moiraine were the …
THE WHEEL OF TIME – Season 1 Episode 7 – SPOILERS The episode’s best scene is at its very beginning, when we see the last minutes of the life of Tigraine Mantear (Magdalena ล ittovรก). The woman manages to defeat a …
WHEEL OF TIME – Season 1 Episode 8 – SPOILERS It opens with a flashback to three thousand years ago and an argument between Lews Theron Telamon (Alexander Karim) and Latra Posae Decume (Katie Brayben), the Amyrlin Seat. Telamon is …
THE WHEEL OF TIME – Season 2 – Episodes 1 through 3 – SPOILERS In Illian, a hunt for the Horn of Valere has begun. Trollocs raid towns in the northern nation of Arafel, and another false Dragon has declared …
THE WHEEL OF TIME – Season 2 – Episodes 4 & 5 – limited spoilers ] Moiraine (Rosamund Pike) tells Rand (Josha Stradowski) that Lanfear (Natascha O’Keeffe) (who has been masquerading as Selene) joined the Dark because many years ago …
THE WHEEL OF TIME – Season 2 Episode 6 – SPOILERS In the city of Falme, in a place called The Kennels, Egwene (Madeleine Madden) is relentlessly tortured by Renna (Xella Mendes-Jones) of the Seanchan. Madden gives the performance of …
THE WHEEL OF TIME – Season 2 Episode 7 – SPOILERS No gunpowder exists in the Wheel of Time universe, but some knowledge of chemistry survives, as we will see later. This episode begins with a flashback to twenty years …
CHARLIE WAGNER – The Swarm – Leonie Benesch ⁓ Exiled to the Shetland Islands for failing to follow protocol, Charlie is well positioned to observe the strange events happening in the world’s oceans, but she reasons in unconventional ways and …